Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.